Centering/Positioning Objects

Hi, I'm trying to center some text in Edge but it won't work. I've tried eyeing it and placing it in the center, but when I preview it the text will be somewhere in left field and I'll have to tweak it again. And even if it's right in my browsers if I go to another computer the positioning will change. I've tried setting the X and Y to percentages and grouping them in divs but it's not working.

Read my last blog; 'What's going on with my symbols', and see if anything applies to you. I mentioned several issues when working with symbols.
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Many javax.swing.text.Position objects en masse

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I am wondering if anyone has much experience with the performance of javax.swing.text.Document implementations (using GapContent) and a large number of registered Position objects. I am trying to keep track of token boundaries for quick re-lexing, and the token count can be rocket high. I am just beginning to work with this API, and I guess I am looking for any insider information I may be missing.
Thanks,
galaxy

Hi,
I am wondering if anyone has much experience with the performance of javax.swing.text.Document implementations (using GapContent) and a large number of registered Position objects. I am trying to keep track of token boundaries for quick re-lexing, and the token count can be rocket high. I am just beginning to work with this API, and I guess I am looking for any insider information I may be missing.
Thanks,
galaxy

Positioning objects in a JTabbedPane

Is the any way to specify the positioning of an object in a JTabbedPane?
I am placing JPanels which contain JLabels and JTextFields into tabs
of a JTabbedPane. All the panels are centered in the tab panes.
This is annoying because one panel contains more labels and fields than
the others. As result some of the data on the smaller panels isn't visible without scrolling.
Is there some way to orient all panes NORTHWEST ? So when a user selects a tab the data is visible.
It seems to me it would be done when adding the tabs (.addTab())
but I can't figure out how.
I tried grigBag.setConstraints(jtp, gridBagConstraints) where jtp
is the tabbed pane. But it did not work.
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Looks to me like you are using FlowLayout - this is the default for JPanels. FlowLayout is a pain in the thingimybob. Try using a more suitable layout manager (e.g. BorderLayout).
This applies both to to the container you're putting the JTabbedPane into, and the JPanels you're putting within the JTabbedPane.
You can set the layout when you create a container, for example...
JPanel panel = new JPanel(new BorderLayout() );
JTabbedPane tabs = new JTabbedPane();
panel.add(tabs, "Center");Hope this helps!
Regards,
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Help positioning objects

In my index file, before I bring it into Edge, I have all objects centered on the page this way:
#parallax-bg1 {
          z-index: 1;
          position: fixed;
          left: 58.5%;
          top: 0;
          width: 1130px;
          margin-left: -600px;
I would like to apply those same parameters to all the animations that I add to this file in Edge. Can that be done?
thanks,
Dan

Hello,
Hum, i don't know what you mean by "all the animations".
But, you can try:
sym.$("Stage").css({
                   "z-index": "1",
                   "position": "fixed",
                   "left": "58.5%",
                   "top": "0",
                   "width": "1130px",
                   "margin-left": "-600px"
or this:
sym.getSymbolElement().css({
                   "z-index": "1",
                   "position": "fixed",
                   "left": "58.5%",
                   "top": "0",
                   "width": "1130px",
                   "margin-left": "-600px"
You can open Stage/compositionReady or Stage/creationComplete to write these lines.

Positioning Objects on the Page.

Hi, Expert:
How can I position two objects on the page relatively? Say, I have two data tables, or one data table and after the table, some other object (button?, etc). B/c I don't know how many rows will return from the database, if I placed two tables too close, the first table will overlay the second one below. Is there a way to place them relatively so the second one will be always at the end of the first one?
Thanks
Jimmy

Yes, and it's pretty easy :)
Drag and drop a GroupPanel component to the page and put both tables into it.
Or you can try changing the layout of the page to Flow Layout, but I use the GroupPanel.

Adjust front panel to screen size and re-position objects on different systems automatically

Hello, i have designed a vi that contains 5 led's placed at the 4 corners and center of the front panel which occupies the entire screen. However, this vi is to be used on different systems having different screen sizes. But on every screen, i'll need the front panel size = screen size and the led's to be placed to the centers and corner of this new screen size automatically without any manual operations and positioning bieng done every time. Will the resize option perform this task completely or do i have to go for some other techniques?
Solved!
Go to Solution.

As far as I know, what you want is not easy to do but it is doable but you have to programmatically do it (no Labview setting). Here is an example for only 2 LEDs but I suppose that you will be able to make it work for your other LEDs.
This VI maximizes the front panel and then positions the 2 LEDs in the center and top right corner upon running. The LEDs are positioned according to their own top left corners, not according to their centers.
Marc Dubois
HaroTek LLC
www.harotek.com
Attachments:
Position LEDs.vi ‏14 KB

(Org Model) Obtain Sales org's object id from position object id.

Hi All,
In the org model, I have the object id of a position and i want to find the object id of the sales org to which this position is assigned.
Is there any FM that does this..?
Thanks in Advance,
Raviraj

Hi Gun,
When i tried tu check out this FM, COM_OM_ORGUNITS_OF_MANAGER, it says "NOTHING_FOUND"
the params i passed are :
PLVAR
MGR_OTYPE     O
MGR_OBJID     50001049   => position id of the user
SELDATE       02/28/2006
NO_DIALOG     X
SEL_MULTIPLE X
am i missing something ?
The hierarchy is :
SOME_SALES_ORG
        |
        |-- ASSIGNED_PERSON
I have the ID of this person and want the ID of the sales org
regards,
raviraj
Message was edited by: Raviraj Khare

Sapscript: position OBJECT GRAPHICS ID

Hi all,
I hope there is someone can help me...
My problem is: i've used the istruction to insert an image in a Sapscript
/: BITMAP 'LOGO_TOPAZIO_DATI1' OBJECT GRAPHICS ID BMAP TYPE BCOL
now, how can i position the image in the centre of page?
Thanks a lots,
regards,
Alex.

Hi,
To print image, you have to import a tif file from your local hardisk via the SAP abap program RSTXLDMC.
In the sap script, add in the following script.
: / INCLUDE ZLOGO OBJECT TEXT ID ST LANGUAGE EN.
or
Tested in 4.6x
Go to transaction SE78.
Follow the path given below (on the left windows box) :-
SAPSCRIPT GRAPHICS --> STORED ON DOCUMENT SERVER --> GRAPHICS --> BMAP
Enter the name of the graphics file on the right side and Go to the menu GRAPHIC --> IMPORT.
Thanks,
Neelima.

Positioning objects on a z radius evenly

I'm useing papervision3d
And I have 8 objects/spheres and will be adding more
objects/spheres later
I was wondering if anyone knows a formula to position any
number of objects evenly on a z radius
any help will be greatly appreciated, sincerely newwave
here is what I have tried, as is only 4 objects/spheres are
visible on stage, due to overlapping
[code]
var M1:MaterialObject3D = new FlatShadeMaterial(light,
0xFF0000, 0xFFCC99);
obj1 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj1.x = -ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj2 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj2.x = ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj3 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj3.z = -ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj4 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj4.z = ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj5 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj5.z = -ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj6 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj6.z = ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj7 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj7.z = -ORBITAL_RADIUS;
obj8 = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
obj8.z = ORBITAL_RADIUS;
[/code]

interesting! lol ;)
well i'm not certain about the math on the z axis but it
'should' be similar in calc to a normal circular calc - you might
try reversing the cos, sin on each line. but the 'real' funny thing
is the grouping, but part of the issue here is the assignment of
the angle to 3 - the above formula divides degrees of rotation (eg.
360) by the quantity of object positions so you really need to have
that in there. but in hindsight you may want to increment the angle
within the array because in this way it will result in rotations
all the way through the circumference - so try this:
private static const ORBITAL_RADIUS:Number = 300;
private var angle:Number = 0;
var M1:MaterialObject3D = new FlatShadeMaterial(light,
0xFF0000, 0xFFCC99);
for(var i=0; i<8; i++) {
this['obj'+i] = new Sphere(M1, 50, 10, 10);
this['obj'+i].x = ORBITAL_RADIUS * Math.cos(angle);
this['obj'+i].z = ORBITAL_RADIUS * Math.sin(angle);
angle += (360 / 8) * Math.PI / 180;
that should do it ;)

Position objects on path

HI
Is there any way to find a specific point on a curved path, that is not an anchor point?
I want to position an object on a path, but I need to know the Y of any given X on that path.
Thanks
Math

Of course, with the note that Illustrator's curves are Bezier curves, and for Beziers, there may be more than one Y for a given X point (I know - the maths is horrible.)
Good thing most illustrators don't like to use the most extreme looped and self-intersecting curves (Illustrator itself has no qualms in inserting these in, for example, Live Traced results!)
Apart from the exact-but-hard mathematical way, you could expand the curve to straight lines. That can be done recursively to any degree of accuracy. Look for my CircleFill script; it contains a Javascript implementation of the late Maxim Shemanarev's Bezier-to-lines code.

Centering text/object indepndently

Hello. I am using a Pages template called Formal Invitation. I am trying to center both text and an object in each of the four squares of the page (the text is the same but each object has different dimensions). Each object/text needs to be centered with itself but NOT with the other three squares of the page. IT seems as if the alignment guides try to align up everything with each other, instead of just the object/text on its own quarter page. Is there any way to align text/object both horizontally and vertically on the QUARTER page, regardless of the stuff on the other parts of the page?
I hope I've explained this correctly - I'm new and I probably don't have the lingo quite right.
Thanks in advance.
JRS

Hi John,
Take a look at Help for: Changing How Alignment Guides Appear
Also: Creating New Alignment Guides
These give a pretty complete lesson on using the guides.
What I can't explain is how the shading representing the page is proportioned. I'd suggest relying on the rulers rather than the shaded areas.
I would add guides bisecting the quarter pages if I had your project, but that's a personal preference.
Jerry

Snap position object in front of active camera

I cannot find this function so please let me know if I am just missing it - but it has occurred to me that it would be very handy to have the ability to align any given opblect in front of the currently active camera.
If a camera Moves throughout a scene and you suddenly want to duplicate an element that is elsewhere in a scene, if you duplicate it, it s duplicated in place. Is there a way to "snap position" an object existing in a scene in front of a camera?

Why would I first need to set the origin of the camera to the center of the scene before cutting if the camera i want the object in front of it elsewhere in the scene.
You don't have to reset the camera, just the duplicated object. If you reset the camera, you'd loose any animation settings you might have.
Am I to understand that Motion 5 just defaults to placing a cut and pasted object in front of a camera only if it's transforms are reset? That seems kind of arbitrary.
I don't know that it's arbitrary, it seems to be related to this (from the motion documentation):
Drag and Drop onto the Canvas
Dragging and dropping an object onto the Canvas adds the object to the scene at the focal plane of the current camera. Dragging an object into the Layers list or clicking the Apply button in the preview area of the File Browser positions the object at 0, 0, 0.
Basically, depending on how you add objects, motion determines where to place them in the scene. This seems to be the case for copy and paste too. Copy and paste includes all of the transformations already applied to the object. The paste treats your camera focal plane like the origin for the scene, but your object has it's own transforms, that's how it gets offset from the camera focal plane. Resetting the object to the origin removes those settings and works like using the apply button mentioned in the documentation.
Here's an example to show what I'm talking about.
1.Add a camera and rotate it, make sure you can see the origin for the grid.
2. Add a shape from the library using the apply button in the inspector.
-The shape gets added at the origin, not at the camera view.
3. Reposition the camera, make sure to change the position and rotation.
4. Add the shape but this time drag and drop to the canvas.
-Notice how the shape is at the focal plane of the camera. If you look at it's settings they match what is needed to position the object at the camera's focal plane.
5. Reposition the camera one more time.
6. Now Copy and past each object while in the active camera view.
-When you copy and past the object at the origin, it's pasted at the focal plane because it doesn't have any transforms.
-When you copy and paste that was added from the drag and drop, it's offset, it's transforms have been added to the camera focal plane transformation.
You may also want to review the section in the documentation about Relative coordinates.
-Cheers

Unable to position objects with x y coordinates

Every time I try to type in a new value for x or y coordinate, the original value replaces the new one automatically. I can move the object with the arrows but only by large increments. Anyone have an idea on how to solve that?

Your description is not clear but I guess that you are trying to set coordinates when the unit is set to centimeters.
Due to the fact that this unit is not a multiple of 72 (the default resolution) we can't use all values with two decimal digits.
But it seems that it was a problem of the past.
I made tests with the version 4.0.1 and every values with two decimals are now correctly applied and kept.
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE jeudi 14 mai 2009 20:57:26)

Position objects by percent in AS3?

I have been working with this .FLA file that has been given to me.
The buttons are all set up in Action Script and not placed on the timeline at all.
Here is the code for postion on the buttons.
I do not want to move the buttons by Pixels
I would like to move the buttons by Perectage so it will look the same on all computer monitors.
The person that I am editing the file for would like them in the bottom left of the screen.
Here I have moved them by Pixels but these buttons do not appear in the same place on all monitors.
Could you please let me know what code I would have to insert to move them by Percentage?
///////let's set the position of the buttons across the bottom of the screen
            b1.move(-350,150);                                                //PLAY/PAUSE
            b2.move((b1.width+5)-350,150);                                    //STOP
            c1.move(((b1.width+b2.width)+10)-350,150);                        //Jump to section
            s1.move(((b1.width+b2.width+c1.width)+15)-350,150);                //VOLUME
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Thanks,
Travis

How would I type that into Action Script3?
Right now I can move the X and Y of my buttons by Pixels.
How would the script look if I wanted to move it by percentage?
Could you give me an example
Thanks

Position Object

Is it possible in the MIDP CLDC to give each object an X and Y co-ordinates? Or you need to use the CDC (Which I understand is for PDA's)?
I have searched so much, however seems that you can only give co-ordinates to objects using the Canvas. However I can not understand how I can then put a TextField inside a Canvas?
regards,
sim085

Ok (somehow) I successfully made the image come into the middle of the screen using the following code:          try{
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                    ImageItem.LAYOUT_NEWLINE_BEFORE|
                    ImageItem.LAYOUT_CENTER|
                    ImageItem.LAYOUT_NEWLINE_AFTER, null));
               Command exitCommand = new Command("Exit", Command.EXIT, 1);
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               super.addCommand(exitCommand);
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          catch(IOException e){
               super.append("Exception: splash image not located.");
          }However, I still have some question (don't winder why :). The image I have in the middle of the screen has a squre around it. Seems like it is there to define that the image is selected. Then If I add another image, I can use the movbile joystick to change focus from one image to the other, or to the text. Is this something visible only in the emulator, or it would be also visible in the application when deployed?
thanks & regards,
sim085

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